It hasn’t taken very long for MLB’s new pitch clock to speed up the pace of play through the first week of regular-season action.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan tweeted an informative assortment of statistics Monday, comparing the first four days of both the 2022 and 2023 MLB seasons.
Last year, the average MLB game through those first four days was 3:09 long. This season, that average length has dipped down to 2:38 per contest.
More than a half-hour shaved off of a baseball game’s clock has made for a much more streamlined product, with Passan noting that the accelerated pace has actually injected more offense into the game.